{"author":"Jane Green","author_id":"Jane+Green","total_quotes":34,"quotes":[{"text":"I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect.","author":"Jane Green","tags":["disappointment","hopeful","jane-green","maturing","romantic-at-heart","st-martin-s-press","summer-secrets"],"id":5188,"author_id":"Jane+Green"},{"text":"Secrets become harder to keep the older you get. The things you think you can suppress, those idiosyncrasies and fantasies you hope no one will ever discover, become harder and harder to hide as the years advance. Partly it is maturity-the fear of discovery grows smaller, less significant, for you learn that none of us is perfect, that human nature is flawed, that life twists and turns in all sorts of unexpected ways and it is okay to end up in a different place to where you expected.","author":"Jane Green","tags":["fantasies","human-nature","inspirational","life","maturity","secrets"],"id":30940,"author_id":"Jane+Green"},{"text":"Forever feels a long time when you're eighteen. When you're away from home for the first time in your life, when you forge instant friendships that are so strong they are destined, surely, to be with you until the bitter end.","author":"Jane Green","tags":["au-pair","bookends","bookshop","coffee-shop","dream","friendship","hiv","life","tv-show"],"id":35697,"author_id":"Jane+Green"},{"text":"I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.","author":"Jane Green","tags":["love","best","think "],"id":81064,"author_id":"Jane+Green"},{"text":"I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.","author":"Jane Green","tags":["business","money","husband "],"id":88280,"author_id":"Jane+Green"},{"text":"I believed our touching to be more intense because of it's very holding back. Belief is always a choice.","author":"Jane Green","tags":["belief","choices"],"id":99918,"author_id":"Jane+Green"},{"text":"Bad things always happen in three.","author":"Jane Green","tags":["betrayal","bigamy","family","fraud","husband","life","love"],"id":101213,"author_id":"Jane+Green"},{"text":"You discover something so awful, so life-changing, the only way you can cope is to jump straight into denial.","author":"Jane Green","tags":["betrayal","bigamy","family","fraud","husband","life","love"],"id":110635,"author_id":"Jane+Green"},{"text":"She would talk to him in the car, ask him something, then turn on the radio and find her question answered by the lyrics of a song; pick up a book and turn to a random page, to find the words that were exactly what she needed to hear. There is no such thing as coincidence, she would think, blowing a kiss of thanks to the heavens.","author":"Jane Green","tags":["betrayal","bigamy","family","fraud","husband","life","love"],"id":137364,"author_id":"Jane+Green"},{"text":"As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.","author":"Jane Green","tags":["good-taste","movies","sense-of-humor"],"id":142971,"author_id":"Jane+Green"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}